Saturday, 19 August 2017

After pilfering a bunch of switches, relays, wires and other bits and pieces, the underside of Booger Mobile's dash was looking a bit worse for wear...

With only three switches left, Damian reverted to the previous switch panel...

Next up, the green LED strobes were to be removed - the switches and controller are gone, so they were doing nothing anyway!!

Gone from the rear window...

The ones on the front grille are held on with pressure-clamps...

Home made by Damian!!

And gone, with the grille still in perfect condition!!

Green LED strobes ready for Retro Rock-It...

Along with the amber LED strobes, the whole set are ready for transplanting!!

With all the wiring and lights gone, the roof rack could now go too!!

But naturally, one of the safety tek-screws (to prevent the vibrations causing the roof rack to slide along the rail, as happened in the first year), snapped off!!

This one snapped off flush with the bracket, so with a bit of wiggling the bracket came off... then a pair of vice grips removed the remaining part...

And of course, one snapped off on the OTHER roof rack too, and on the opposite side of the car!!

This one snapped off a bit further out, therefore, the only way Damian could get it out was by using a hacksaw blade to cut a slot into it, then use a straight screwdriver to remove it... That did the trick!!

Roof rack gone...

Last to go was the aerial...

After lots of mucking around, Damian fed the coax from the aerial back through the firewall (after pulling a few wires through to get them out of the way, then reconnecting them afterwards), then tidied up the under bonnet wiring and put the battery back in.

Before reconnecting the battery, the under dash wiring was finished off...

And of course, all this work is being watched over by the Booger Angel.

After reconnecting the battery (and finding that everything was working, and nothing caught fire), Damian took Booger Mobile for a test drive - all good!!

Slowly but surely, Booger Mobile is changing from an esCarpade car to a retired esCarpade car.

Of course, this year Damian is building a new car called Retro Rock-It, so if you want to catch up on the progress there, check out the Retro Rock-It blog at http://retrorock-it.blogspot.com

Team Booger Mobile

is Damian Sheather, who will unfortunately not be joined for the fourth year in a row by family friend Angus McMillan, who is not up to making another trip in the bouncy old XM Falcon!!
Who will join Damian in 2016?